The Skin Game is a 1931 film by Alfred Hitchcock, based on a play by John Galsworthy. The story revolves around two rival families, the Hillcrests and the Hornblowers, and the disastrous results of the feud between them. Produced by British International Pictures (BIP), many critics consider this film a low point in Hitchcock's career: rather than exploiting the medium of film, he had been commissioned to transform a stage play into a movie, and stuck strictly to the plot, without adding the same personal flair that stood out in his previous film, Murder.